Stone Hill Cottage And Old Forge Cottage

Stone Hill Cottage and Old Forge Cottage is a house, now a row of houses, dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in 1657 and restored in the 1980s. The building is timber framed with painted brick infilling and has a plain tile roof. It is designed in the Wealden style, consisting of two roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays, with two storeys and an attic set on a stone plinth. The right and left end bays project forward. The first floor of each end bay features broadly-spaced close-studding, while the rest of the structure has thin broadly-spaced studding. The left hall bay has rectangular panels. The roof is hipped, and there is a multiple brick ridge stack located at the left end of the right hall bay.

The left hall bay has had its flying wall-plate removed and a gable inserted above the eaves level, which is jettied and supported by shaped brackets. This gable features carved bargeboards, a moulded pendant, and a 3-light casement window with the date 1657. Below it is a rectangular 2-storey timber-framed bay window from the 17th century, which originally had a deep central window and flanking frieze windows on both floors, but now has a 16-pane sash window on each floor. The fenestration is irregular, with four windows in total, including one 3-light casement window in each end bay and one single-light window in the right hall bay.

There is a panelled door leading to Stone Hill Cottage in a painted brick lean-to on the left, and another door to Old Forge Cottage in the centre of the right end bay. A rear lean-to is also present. Inside, the framing is exposed, and there is a moulded and brattished beam at the left end of the hall. The left inglenook features a bressumer with an integral moulded wooden mantelpiece. There is also an upper section of an octagonal 17th-century newel post with a finial.